Despite the huge importance of community sports centres, which serve as nurseries where budding athletes exhibit their fledgling skills in their formative years, governments at different levels have continued to falter in their provision. CHRISTIAN OKPARA reports that the dearth…
The clash of perspectives underscores the deeper challenge: while some attacks may appear religiously targeted, the broader landscape of Nigerian violence is shaped by overlapping crises — weak governance, poverty, unregulated migration, proliferation of weapons, climate pressures, and the failures…
Too often, one hears that it is not Nigeria that needs restructuring, but the minds of Nigerians and their leaders. Those who hold that view try to shift the emphasis away from structure to culture. They are wrong! Of course, culture…
The nation is sliding deeper into an insecurity crisis serious enough for the United States to redesignate Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC) for religious intolerance and persecution of Christians. The CPC label, in global security terms, is…
The Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, on Wednesday removed Umar Buba and Godiya Akwashiki as chairmen of the Committees on National Security and Intelligence, and Air Force, respectively, over their failure to perform oversight duties amid increasing insecurity nationwide. Mr Akpabio…
President Bola Tinubu is over the moon right now, for whatever it is worth. Last week was horrible for his administration and the man-in-charge image he is trying desperately to project. In less than seven days, terrorists deflated his elephantine ego…
We say a complete NO to negotiations with terrorists – NMFAC Declare a state of emergency on insecurity, group The Nigerian Movement for Actionable Change (NMFAC) on Wednesday staged a peaceful protest at the National Assembly, calling for urgent and…
The Senate Leader, Opeyemi Bamidele, has urged lawmakers at both federal and state levels to refrain from politicising the nation’s security challenges. Speaking during a debate on a motion regarding rising kidnapping cases in Kwara, Kebbi, and Niger States, Mr…
By Bashir Bello Former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and former governor of Kano State, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has called on the Governor Abba Yusuf-led government to borrow a leaf from the security models implemented under…
As insecurity in many parts of Nigeria continues to pose serious challenges, recently drawing the attention of the United States President and Congress, many journalists covering these crises say they now face overwhelming social, psychological, and emotional trauma. Trauma induced…